Gul: February 22 Informal Writing Project 2

Gul was kind enough to email me his informal writing project! I've uploaded it to my google docs so you can view it. Unfortunately the arrows didn't transfer, so I'm still thinking of a way to make that work. I welcome ideas. Here's the link; at least we have the body of the text available!
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUt8lTLn3nu_ZGM1M2ttM3NfMmcybTZmcnRu&hl=en

Van Rides in the Dark: Literacy as Involvement

Definitions:

• literacy
• noblesse oblige
• service courses
• intersubjectivity
• power parity

Distinctions:

• writing and reading are pure acts of human involvement
• failures of literacy are failures of involvement
• include institutional influences as part of involvement
• literacy names socially empowered knowledge
• to teach literacy means to teach a mode of interaction
• involvement cannot show itself as a major dynamic in reading and writing as long as our institutions encourage only the text-like virtues of objective points of view

How this pedagogy supports student's public literate actions
What they ask of teachers who desire to support such actions

texts:

• Mike Rose: Lives on the Boundary
• Brandt: A Strong Text Theory of Literacy

*one thing these stories show us is words have no meaning without experience or context behind them. Now they have prison literacy and empathy literacy, and I guess by default I don't.